Oct 26 The Wedding Day

For those of you who don't know, I have been in 2 weddings within the past month.

Here are a few words to describe how I feel about this:

Grateful, Honored, Loved, Broke, & Very, Very Single.

But despite the wide spectrum of emotions that my heart has felt at these weddings, there is one thing I have come to truly love and appreciate looking back.

When you're a bridesmaid you get to do all sorts of fun things like go to bachelorette parties, have fun at bridal showers showers, and eat all of the left over cake.

But none of these activities have been my favorite parts of the wedding.

No. My favorite part of both weddings that I have been in this month, and presumably all of the weddings I will be in, in the future is, The Wedding Day.

I love the day of the wedding for so many reasons.

It's the day you've all been waiting for. The day you've been working for and preparing for. The day the Bride earnestly readies herself for her Groom, and the day the Groom eagerly awaits for his Bride at the altar.

It is a beautiful, wonderful, and almost perfect image of what our day will look like when we are reunited with our creator and bridegroom.

Just as we do the week of the wedding (and many months before), we spend years of our lives preparing for this day.

And it is going to be beautiful.

Our bridegroom will await us with open arms and tears in His eyes saying, "Well done." And we will live in eternity fully complete and satisfied in His presence.

I love the wedding day because it is a gift from God. Out of His unfailing love, he grants us the opportunity to witness and experience an example of what our day will look like when we are reunited with Him.

I love looking back at the groom when the bride first walks in. As the tears well up in his eyes and he sees the love of his life walking down the aisle to finally be with him forever.

I love the end of the night. When all of the makeup has been sweated off, the hair fallen down, and the ties and coats have come off. When everyone is relaxed, the nerves are gone, and all that's left to do is celebrate.

I love the speeches the maid of honor and the best man give as an account and testimony to the love this couple has between them. Much like the account we will give of our lives when we meet our bridegroom on that day.

This is what I think heaven is going to be like.

One big celebration. Where all of the fancy clothes and layers of makeup we have put on are washed away and the true beauty of our hearts that we have invited Jesus into, and that God has created, shines through.

We will be made new. We will be made one. We will all tell one story. And it will be beautiful.

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There would be some seasons of life where we would be walking in between the buried land mines, but we were bound to step on a few along the way.

That was my life advice for our conversation that we were having about all the many changes that life brings and all the hard things we seem to have to go through to learn and grow.

To which my roommate so lovingly and semi-sarcastically responded, "Wow, Anna. That was really helpful."

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So the sarcastic admonishment from my friend was well deserved.

And while it has been said before - and with great truth - that we are either preparing for a storm, walking through one, or coming out of one, we as Christians can not use these phrases as an excuse to have a negative view on this life we've been given.

Growing up in the Arizona desert, rain can come to feel like just as exciting of a phenomenon as snow on Christmas Day.

Things aren't much different here in Texas.

When it rain we immediately have to drive 10mph on roads where the normal speed limit is 65mph. We take videos, don't leave our houses, and will use it as an excuse to not go to the grocery store, run errands, or skip church.

You think I'm kidding...

Nevertheless rain is not something we can go without. Not even in Texas or Arizona.